Let's see those blue basses!

[musicman556]

Beautiful stuff here! Guess it's time for a family update from my bassment. Apologies, my love of blue basses extends to the blue/green/teal/aqua/seafoam realm as well!

 

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2000 Carvin LB-70

Love them older Carvins!

 

[JC BASS 91]

Love them older Carvins!

She was a dream given form. I saw a full page add in Bass Player Magazine in the mid-90s where they showed an LB-75 with a quilted maple top in Ruby Red stain with gold hardware. I thought it was absolutely gorgeous so called and requested a catalog. Once I got the catalog, I started picturing in my mind what I wanted mine to be. Since my favorite color is blue, the transparent sapphire was my immediate choice. That bass cost me a whopping $1000 back in 2000 when I ordered it. I felt absolutely nuts for spending that kind of money on a bass. My wife at the time (very unsupportive of my music) thought I was an idiot. (Should be noted that my current wife, back in January, told me to spend $3500 to get my Ric.)

All my basses have names, and that LB-70 is Lucy. Lucy has been with me longer than any of my current basses and I won't part with her. She's an amazing player. If I had it to do over, though, the only thing I would change would be to get a laminate neck instead of the straight maple neck.

 

[woodyng2]

Meteora bass gifted from my family. (One of two I can never sell).
Opal spark blue with a nice fretboard.

The other bass I can’t sell is the sunburst jazz as it was also a gift back in 2003 or 2004.


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Stunning LB-100. That Meteora is ultra cool, too.

 

[Z-Bass]

Here's my Lakland Skyline 44-60 Custom in Ice Blue Metallic. Kind of a deceiving color as it looks more blue or silver depending on the lighting. I usually get compliments on this bass.......the looks, not the playing.

 

[mellobud]

Stunning LB-100. That Meteora is ultra cool, too.

Thanks. I found that hanging mint in a pawn shop with dead strings. It had been there for 8 months and I walked out with it and the original case for $700ish. It’s a 2015 Detroit Muscle SS collection. (I paid G&L for replacement paperwork on it)

 

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Here's my Lakland Skyline 44-60 Custom in Ice Blue Metallic. Kind of a deceiving color as it looks more blue or silver depending on the lighting. I usually get compliments on this bass.......the looks, not the playing.
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In that lighting, it looks silvery-pink platinum, almost...

 

[Z-Bass]

In that lighting, it looks silvery-pink platinum, almost...

Yeah, it a neat color. In certain lighting, hues of purple also seem to pop out. I dig it.

 

[El Trueno]

2 blues currently in my arsenal - a daphne blue avii Precision and a Klos Apollo in aqua.

 

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View attachment 5161571 2 blues currently in my arsenal - a daphne blue avii Precision and a Klos Apollo in aqua.

That KLOS has a certain kind of mean, "industrial strength" coolness to it!

 

[El Trueno]

That KLOS has a certain kind of mean, "industrial strength" coolness to it!

It kinda does! Seriously impressed with the Klos. I recently had a clear out but it survived the cut!

 

[bholder]

Thanks! Sounds and plays pretty great, too! I had let it sit without playing for a few months, weather changed, so it did need a smidge of a turn on the truss rods and a bridge tweak to get back in shape. Also reminded that I never really finished the electronics properly - I tacked the connections together quickly, without taping the exposed joints and such, and it sounded so nice I just left it like that. So it needed a whack or two across the knobs and switches before thinks clicked into place (was missing the neck pickup output, which also breaks the series settings). Anyways, here's some older clips of it:

Here's how it sounds today, recorded just now, parallel HBs in parallel, eq slight bass boost, blend slightly towards neck. Caught in a riff of my own making, from which there is no escaping. 'scuse the sloppiness, haven't been practicing, especially not on the 8!

 

[bassrebel]

My new to me LowEnd LEJ5

 

[jd56hawk]

 

[Plake]

 

[MadJack]

My Soda Blue Ibanez TMB-100 with Epic Custom Shop PJ2 and Tone Monster SBK-2D preamp. The knobs, from the neck back, are Volume (drilled a new hole, rout was there already), Blend and concentric Treble/Bass.

It wears a set of DR DDT .045"-.105" I run it from standard tuning to drop C#.

 

[Jeff K]

Official color is Sonic Gray (or Grey???), but it sure looks blue to me. American Professional II...

 

[B-Mac]

My 2022 Epiphone Pelham Blue Jack Casady that I got back in March.

 

[JimS]

 

[GIBrat51]

Although blue is one of my favorite colors - and, according to my "professional" astrology chart, is "my color" - I only have one blue bass.
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As of this moment; sadly, this G&L ASAT Bass is still my only blue bass. However, last April I ordered a Serek Sacramento Bass, to fill the last empty spot in my herd. And, I ordered it in Daphne Blue - with Cream binding. Unless I get really lucky, it's scheduled to be done in April 2024. Hopefully, by then I will have finally figured out how to load pictures to this verkakte laptop - and to post them here...